A child collects water from a main water supply in Kambuzuma, Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. Zimbabwe is suffering a hunger and health crisis and economic meltdown amid the political impasse. A cholera outbreak that has spread because of the crumbling health care system and water supply infrastructure has killed more than 2,000 people since August.
A woman looks happy after receiving food aid through the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers South east of Harare, Thursday, Jan., 15, 2009. Oxfam warned Thursday that more people are set to receive less food due to funding shortfall. Over five million Zimbabweans rely on food hand outs and the situation is getting worse as Zimbabwe enters its peak hunger period.
A child collects water from a main water supply in Kambuzuma, Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
A woman carries water collected from a broken main water supply pipe in Kambuzuma, Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
Villagers head home from a school in Chirumanzu district, 250 kilometres from the Zimbabwean capital Harare on January 15, 2009 after receiving food rations from the non-governmental organisation, Oxfam.
Children play next to stagnant water in Kambuzuma, Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
A resident carries a box as villagers head home from a school in Chirumanzu district, 250 kilometres from the Zimbabwean capital Harare on January 15, 2009 after receiving food rations from the non-governmental organisation, Oxfam. Zimbabwe's hunger crisis is nearing a peak, as millions of people see their food from last year's harvest run out months before the next crop will come in. The situation could rapidly worsen as aid agencies are forced to cut rations this month due to funding shortfalls.
A young boy collects water from a broken main water supply pipe in Kambuzuma, Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
A woman carries cooking oil after receiving it through the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers South east of Harare, Thursday, Jan., 15, 2009.
Village people receive food aid through the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers south east of Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
A woman pushes a wheelbarrow with maize after receiving it through the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers South east of Harare, Thursday, Jan., 15, 2009.
Village women receive aid from the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers South east of Harare, Thursday, Jan., 15, 2009.
A man checks his grain after receiving it through the charity organisation, Oxfam International, at a distribution centre in Chirumhanzi about 250 Kilometers South east of Harare, Thursday, Jan., 15, 2009.
Children, one with a child on her back, carry collected water in containers on their heads in Harare, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday, focusing its annual children's survey on the health of their mothers.
Zimbabwe's opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai gestures during a media briefing in Johannesburg January 15 2009. Tsvangirai said on Thursday he remained committed to a power-sharing agreement but demanded the release of detained activists as a condition for implementing it. He told a news conference in Johannesburg he would meet Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Kgalema Motlanthe, president of neighbouring South Africa, this week to discuss the stalled power-sharing deal signed in September last year.
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai at a news conference in Johannesburg Thursday Jan. 15, 2009. Tsvangirai said that he is meeting with Robert Mugabe in the next week to try to resolve their country's political impasse.
MY SAY...
For heavens sake give up on this damn GNU it was a no starter from the beginning and will never ever come about....and anyone that believed ''mugabe and the generals'' were/are going to share power need your heads seen to......
IT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.....
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